27th—38th days.—The voyage takes ten days, after 
four of which a day is “ lost,” evidently on the 
180th degree. 
The time exactly corresponds to that occupied by 
the fast steamers from Hawaii to Japan, and I 
think we may assume that that island is the one 
where the affair began.  This is confirmed by a 
punning allusion to Diamond Head in the 27th day.  
This becomes perfectly clear if we accept the 
Editor’s conjecture “hula” for the indecipherable 
word in the 9th day.  It is presumed that they 
landed in Yokohama, as the following day they 
visit Kamakura.  It is strange how the writer can 
have come down to the state in which my friend 
the Editor, found him.  He could evidently write 
and obtain money from home (47th day), and his 
actions are quite difficult to understand unless we 
assume the whole “ Alice ” episode to be a gor-
geous fiction with the place and time references 
slyly inserted, the more surely to ensnare the feet 
of an investigator.  This I am rather inclined to 
 
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